Wednesday, 13 August 2008

Alalu

The Hurrians were a people who occupied Anatolia (Turkey) from the early
third millennium B.C. Many of their religious and mythic concepts were absorbed
by their Hittite conquerors, beginning after 2000 B.C. Among these traditions
was the story of Alalu, the first king of heaven, a giant god who made his home
on a mountainous island in the sea of the setting sun. His son, Kumarbi, was
synonymous for the Greek Kronos, a mythic personification of the Atlantic Ocean
through Roman times. In Alalu survives a Hurrian memory of the mountainous
island of Atlantis.
(See Arallu, Arallu, Kronos)

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